Limited funding and resources are preventing seed banks from fully using their seed collections to conserve endangered plants.
Tag - translocation
Dale Maylea
Is it better to run or fight? The choice facing plant conservationists in France.
Plant translocation is a difficult process. How are conservationists using it as a tool?
Dr Ward and the case of the globe-trotting plants…
The wealth of some of the 19th century powers can be traced to a piece of botanical equipment.
Nigel Chaffey
Spider orchid conservation: the importance of serendipitous fungi
Mycorrhizal fungi can be isolated from related common species to propagate threatened Caladenia.
Juniper Kiss
Abscisic acid affects rice cell wall phosphate remobilization and P transporation
Abscisic acid (ABA) is a well-studied phytohormone known to be involved in sub-sets of stress responses in plants, such as iron (Fe) deficiency and phosphorus (P) deficiency in Arabidopsis. However, whether ABA is...
botanyone
The secret to conserving an endangered orchid is in the soil
A study of orchids shows the secret to conservation isn't in the plants you can see, but the fungi you can't.
Alun Salt
Uptake of toxic metals by rice
Studies that do not allow for anaerobic conditions during iron plaque formation may under-estimate metal sequestration in wetland plants.
AJ Cann
Inbreeding and outbreeding depression in Grevillea
For many Australian plants little is known about either their population genetics or the effects on mating systems of variation in pollen transfer distances. Forrest et al. manipulate pollination of Grevillea...
